The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy

7

1

When YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH shall bring thee into the land whither thou
goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee, the
Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the
Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and
mightier than thou;

2

and when YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH shall deliver them up before thee, and thou
shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them: thou shalt make no
covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them;

3

4

For he will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve
other deities: so will the anger of YAHUVEH be kindled against you, and he
will destroy thee quickly.

5

But thus shall ye deal with them: ye shall break down their altars, and
dash in pieces their pillars, and hew down their Asherim, and burn their
graven images with fire.

6

For thou art a holy people unto YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH: YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH
hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples
that are upon the face of the earth.

7

YAHUVEH did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were
more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all peoples:

8

but because YAHUVEH loveth you, and because he would keep the oath which
he sware unto your fathers, hath YAHUVEH brought you out with a mighty
hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of
Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9

Know therefore that YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH, he is YAHUVEH, the faithful
YAHUVEH, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him
and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

10

and repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy them: he will
not be slack to him that hateth him, he will repay him to his face.

11

Thou shalt therefore keep the commandment, and the statutes, and the
ordinances, which I command thee this day, to do them.

12

And it shall come to pass, because ye hearken to these ordinances, and
keep and do them, that YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH will keep with thee the covenant
and the lovingkindness which he sware unto thy fathers:

13

and he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; he will also
bless the fruit of thy body and the fruit of thy ground, thy grain and thy
new wine and thine oil, the increase of thy cattle and the young of thy
flock, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

14

Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or
female barren among you, or among your cattle.

15

And YAHUVEH will take away from thee all sickness; and none of the evil
diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee, but will lay
them upon all them that hate thee.

16

And thou shalt consume all the peoples that YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH shall
deliver unto thee; thine eye shall not pity them: neither shalt thou serve
their deities; for that will be a snare unto thee.

17

If thou shalt say in thy heart, These nations are more than I; how can
I dispossess them?

18

thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what YAHUVEH
thy YAHUVEH did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

19

the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders,
and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH
brought thee out: so shall YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH do unto all the peoples of
whom thou art afraid.

20

Moreover YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH will send the hornet among them, until they
that are left, and hide themselves, perish from before thee.

21

Thou shalt not be affrighted at them; for YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH is in the
midst of thee, a great YAHUVEH and a terrible.

22

And YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH will cast out those nations before thee by little
and little: thou mayest not consume them at once, lest the beasts of the
field increase upon thee.

23

But YAHUVEH thy YAHUVEH will deliver them up before thee, and will
discomfit them with a great discomfiture, until they be destroyed.

24

And he will deliver their kings into thy hand, and thou shalt make
their name to perish from under heaven: there shall no man be able to
stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

25

The graven images of their deities shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt
not covet the silver or the gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee,
lest thou be snared therein; for it is an abomination to YAHUVEH thy
YAHUVEH.

26

And thou shalt not bring an abomination into thy house, and become a
devoted thing like unto it: thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt
utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.